1,000 nautical miles to go We just finished our final full-ration of food the day before yesterday. Each full-ration day had 5,500+ calories of food for each rower. We now have 40 days of 3,500 calories per rower per day, and a healthy supply of left-over rations from our first 67 days at sea. Our […]
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Folks that know me – parents, friends, housemates – know that I am, for the most part, one of those people that wakes up happy and chipper and cannot really fathom why waking up is so painful for other people. Rarely can I sleep eight full hours. I’m lucky if I can stay in bed […]
Before pulling in the sea anchor this morning, we spent a good part of the last 24 hours slowly drifting with the wind and waves in a north-easterly direction. In the wee hours of the night, things let up and we were free from our weather shackles for the time being. As of now we’re […]
I loved reading Jordan’s blog where he used our rowboat and its limited resources as a metaphor for conservation. Our boat, like the planet earth, has limited resources and we must plan, make assumptions about, and manage their use. Our planning, management and assumptions need to be made as a team. We are all in […]
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Day 62: Whales!!!
The shape had hardly time to register in my mind. When it did it was halfway into the water, and the MASSIVE splash seemed huge even from a half-mile away. It was a humpback, by our best guess… bubble net feeding, circling around the plankton that makes this massive mammal’s food, and making a net […]